Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.